Kathy Parks
Auteur van The Lifeboat Clique
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- Werken
- 4
- Leden
- 274
- Populariteit
- #84,603
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 21
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- 2
"Trevor Dunham talked quite a bit about his man part just before he drowned."
I gotta say, this book was love at first sentence-sight.
I was super excited for this because it's so rare that I find a dark comedy in YA, especially one with a premise that interests me. This book definitely had the premise. What would you do if you were stuck on a broken-down boat in the middle of the Pacific w/ a bunch of kids you hate? It would be nice to think that you'd all just forget about your differences and Kumbaya and stuff, but would that REALLY happen?? Well, on this boat it definitely did not!
I think that adding comedy and lightness to a life/death situation can be really tricky to pull off, and I was so happy that it was done to perfection here. It was silly and funny in parts (mostly flashbacks), totally sad and serious in others (mostly when life/death situations happened), and had a great use of satire in the everyday things that happened on the boat.
Right away, I loved Denver. She was equal parts funny, snippy, and smart. She was all-alone after being dumped by BFF Abigail, and yet I didn't find her bitter. I think she wanted her friend back, but she didn't become an angry person over it (as I surely would have). I also loved how resourceful she was. She was always thinking and it saved their butts more than once. The other characters were like a Regina/Gretchen/Karen-mix and surfer-dude who wasn't near as annoying as I first thought he would be. This book is a total character book, so if you're not feeling the characters, you won't be feeling this book.
The BEST part was that-- SURPRISE, this book has heart!! I really found a touching story in all the high school drama and mean girl antics. And there was a surprise thing that happened before the ending. I totally did not see this one really big revelation coming. It wasn't shocking in the way I was expecting either (I was expecting dark comedy stuff, and I got real-life realities). My only real let-down was I didn't love the ending. I don't like "lessons" in general, but I especially didn't like it when the lesson was something really frustrating. Although some good things happened, it still gave me a really downer-vibe. This story is not going to be one of my life-long favorites, but it's definitely up there on my fave 2016 books list.
OVERALL: I loved this dark comedy that featured an unpopular girl trapped on a boat w/ popular people that hate her during a natural disaster. It was funny, but also truthful and emotional at times. I loved the characters (which is really what this book is all about) and can't wait to read more by Kathy Parks!
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